My 43 Things

I say I completed my 43 Things, but I never said what those 43 Things were; some are in play, some are in the planning stages, and some I try to accomplish every day.

And here they are:

1. Weigh 199 pounds, with a healthy body fat percentage (target 11 percent), by Dec. 31, 2007
2. Strive to become the fearless, happy person I was in my youth
3. Write something every single day
   
4. Stop biting my nails
5. Find everlasting love
6. Pray more
7. Stop beating myself up mentally
8. Sincerely thank all the people for being in my life
9. Create a database of birthdays of my friends and family, and never miss one again
10. Volunteer more
11. Be assigned to cover the 2008 Summer Olympics
12. Live in Italy for a year
13. Read 12 books in 2007 outside my normal comfort level
14. Visit Australia
15. Build time into my life to do absolutely nothing
16. Vacation in Bora Bora for a month
17. Be independent of credit cards by 2010
18. Learn Italian
19. Organize my addresses into one handy file
20. Buy an alternative pet (rat or aquarium)
21. Take a yoga class
22. Treat myself to an indulgence once a month
23. Publish a piece of original fiction
24. Live self-sufficiently (off-the-grid) for at least a month, but more like a year
25. Create more things by my own hands
26. Try snowboarding
27. Make love covered head to toe in oil
28. Trek in Nepal
29. Get at least one more tattoo
30. Enter and finish a mountain bike race
31. Travel to all 50 States
32. Learn how to write songs
33. Write poetry and have it published
34. Buy a new house and entertain, often
35. Try "la Fée Verte" "the Green Fairy," or Absinthe
36. Visit Poland, understand where my ancestors came from
37. Do more with less
38. Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
39. Never again eat fast food again
    
40. Retrofit my Bridgestone MB-2 into a singlespeed mountain bike
41. Be more vocal while making love
42. Solo hike the John Muir Trail
43. Continue to find the humor in life